If the mere thought of a burrito with sour cream in it turns your stomach, you could say that you despise sour cream. You loathe it, abhor it, hate it, and think it's vile.
To look down upon with disfavor or contempt; to contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have a low opinion or contemptuous dislike of.
Verb
look down on with disdain; "He despises the people he has to work for"; "The professor scorns the students who don''t catch on immediately"
v. t.
To look down upon with disfavor or contempt; to
contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have a low opinion or contemptuous
dislike of.
Despise
Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
To look down upon with disfavor or contempt; to contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have a low opinion or contemptuous dislike of.
Usage Examples
Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
It is only the ignorant who despise education.
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.
I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
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Other Usage ExamplesDespise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama's Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists' Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration.
Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
Only the elites despise earning money.
In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.
Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.
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